... on ever-greater importance with academic scholars and critics and generated a variety of critical readings. Ewing Campbell, for example, agreed with earlier reviewers that "Cathedral" represented a "new" Carver. In a book-length study of Carver's fiction, Campbell argued that in "Cathedral," Carver used a "rarely seen opposite of an archetypal pattern." He further maintained that "Cathedral" "provides the rare opposite of this familiar ... ...

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... of experience. Then what can be done to achieve literariness'? They put forward the concept of "defamiliarization", to make objects unfamiliar, to make forms difficult, to increase the difficulty and length of perception because the process of perception is an aesthetic end in itself and must be prolonged.(from Art as Technique by Shklovsky). Eagleton could not accept the concept of ... ...

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... Review published "The Wagons" in 1959, his first short story. In 1968 his first novel was published, Past Master. Lafferty wrote over two hundred short stories and over twenty full-length novels. Lafferty quit his job with Clark Electrical Supply in 1971 to devote all his time to his writing. Raphael stopped writing in 1980 because of health problems. He suffered ... ...

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